About Usability HQ

Usability HQ is an experienced usability and design consultancy, based in Christchurch, New Zealand. We are experts in a wide range of usability services, from analyzing the usability and accessibility of websites, web and software applications, and hardware devices to user research and testing. Furthermore, our team can design / redesign your websites to match usability guidelines and more importantly match your customers' needs and expectations.

• We care. We help you increase revenue, retain and increase your customer base.
• We watch and listen. We don't just hand you a design! We watch your end-users using your application/device, listen to their concerns, and keep on testing until we produce a usable design that meets your end-users' needs.
• We advise. Not only do we evaluate the usability and accessibility of your product, we give you advise on how to fix any usability problems, and produce design recommendations.
• We want to know you and your end-users. We're a friendly bunch, and we would love to see you at work, and see your end-users (in their environment) using your application/device to better understand their needs.
• We're not just passionate, we're experts. Each member of our team is an experienced professional, with a Masters degree in Computer Science majoring in Human-Computer Interaction.
• We're small. Therefore we're friendly, flexible, and fast.
• We're commited to making the world a usable place. Usability is everywhere, from web applications, to the keyboard, and remote control. Any device used by us humans should undergo a usability study. However, sadly, this was only realised recently. Hence, our aim to educate people about usability and make the world a usable place.
• We belong to professional bodies.We are members of the Usability professionals Association.

We're a small team of professionals with a diverse background in user experience design, research, and usablity. We have passion about usability, and share the desire to help clients improve their user experience.